How often do you go to the range or how often should you go? Depending on the type of gun owner you are and what your gun is used for.
How Often Should You Go To The Shooting Range
Training, Mindset & Range Education
How to Train in an Indoor Range – Handgun
Lucas Botkin goes over how to train in an indoor range with handguns. While indoor range training isn’t necessarily exciting, there’s still a lot you can work on.
I go once a week and I feel like once a week is about right for developing muscle memory. I used to go less often (once a month or less), but I was disappointed in my results. I only found myself really getting consistent in going every week. So, it would be better to shoot 50 rounds weekly rather than 200 rounds all in one session once a month.
However, live fire is not the only thing. One should be practicing dry fire and holster draws (with an unloaded gun) much more often…. you will get much better results when you do go out to the range because you are isolating variables. Dry fire costs only a snap cap (though MantisX would be better) and can be done on one’s own schedule rather than the range’s schedule and availability (I do a lot of my dry fire late at night, for example). Also, one should consider formal training as well. I got training in the Army and working armed security because there is much more to defensive shooting than just trigger pulls and draw strokes.
Not to be overly critical, but if your channel is called, “The Beginning Gunner”, it would be better to cite the sources you are using to come to these range session intervals. If Massad Ayoob or Jerry Miculek specifies some kind of training, they are doing it under their own authority as respected instructors/professional shooters. I really don’t think you are all that “Beginning” (not many beginners have complete reloading setups… it took me 20 years before I got into reloading), but if presenting your channel as someone who is beginning and walking people through your journey, then you really should not be giving advice directly, but rather explaining what you are doing and what advice you got and where you got it so that viewers can go to your source to see how they can use that source for their own benefit. I also think that would be much more personal and engaging
I shoot at the indoor range (75 feet) 3-4x a month and have a Mantis training system (which I use daily, before and during my workouts at my home gym). I shoot past 75 feet outside with my AR once a month. Some guys golf. My hobby is shooting and Iām just a regular dude. I shoot way better than my buddies who are cops, former military etc. I treat it like a martial art.
USCCA video was a waste of 36 seconds. And they expect me to shell out real money for them to cover when I have to engage. // Good job btw.